Terraria: Drills are worse
Pickaxes are better – this time, proven with math.
If you have the time to swap out for an Ancient Chisel every now and then (1 second), then you can reap the benefits of the Pickaxe.
Stop wasting materials on the Terrarian drill, all hail the Terrarian pickaxe.
Note: This is my opinion only. You can use whatever you want, we don’t live in a Terrasteelian Dictatorship
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Terraria: Drills are worse
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Note that this is just my personal opinion. If you're speedrunning or playing just for bosses (like in a Calamity playthrough), drills might be for you.
Some of you enjoy the drill sounds, some like the novelty. I personally think they're cooler, though I'm one for function over form.
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I didn't even know you could get all those buffs. I guess if you dont care about the range, noise and buffs the drill is better.
I almost always play terraria with the minimum amount of actual mining possible- since it's probably the most boring part. Since drills are only usually relevant in early hardmode to post golem, and since by then digging blocks for more than 5 seconds at a time is rare (at least for me, since I use bombs and don't focus on tunneling), drills are more convenient. Ambrosia isn't a gurantee since you have to both find the shimmer biome and bring a fruit over there. Because of my playstyle's minimum mining focus, spending flat time upgrading mining speed is far less effective. I would make the argument that switching between an accessory slot (which you have to find) to get a low speed boost isn't worth the time it would take to hotswitch to a drill and excavate whatever short tunnel or ore node happens to be a priority.
So I guess I just don't understand your argument. With a setup that includes taking one of your accessory slots and a item that is post mech, pickaxes beat drills. Compared to crafting a drill and not having to worry about any of that. If you don't like the sound that's valid, you could make a resource pack that changes or gets rid of the sound 🤷♀️. Idk I just don't see the argument. Why would do a setup to make pickaxe good when drills don't need any setup.
Personally I don't have a preference, I just like playing devils advocate but in this case I just didn't understand the argument.
I usually use drills during multiplayer because it is hard to get 2 ancient chisels
Y'know, i came into this expecting to defend drills, but i did not know they didnt get mining speed buffs. Thank you Terrasteel!
You know what's funny. Every time i see an ancient chisel, I either ignore it or delete it, so I have no idea where to get one now LOL. That, and Im too lazy to literally double click from time to time, that's why I dont even reforge
Drills are better in general, pickaxes are only better with very specific configurations. You can't say that raw onions are better than pizza when they're not raw.
Everybody gangsta until the shroomite digging claw comes
I like the sound drills and saws make though <:(
This guy is the Veritasium of Terraria. Love u man
I was going to say that getting the Light modifier is a pretty big ask, but Nasty, Quick, Agile, Deadly, and Legendary are all good enough (when combined with the Ancient Chisel or Mining Potion) to make the speed on par with drills without the range deficit (if I did my math right), so… still checks out.
I guess, if you're just going to use it casually, the drills are perfectly fine, but, if you want use equipment and buffs to mine more quickly for, say, a larger mining job, pickaxes are better.
Laying it out like that, I might end up making both in my next playthrough– at least for Orichalcum.
I'm pretty sure the drax gives you turtle(enemy) immunity.
(It just stops it!)
2:46 clicking once*
always been a pickaxe fan, pickaxe gang 4 life
Honestly? Im just gonna use both chisel and mining potion. One right click and one drink and now i have a fuckton of mining speed for 8 minutes, enough for whatever i need to do.
I like the drill sound, I shall continue using drills just because of that
I mean yeah pickaxes are better but im too lazy to get any of the buffs
very cool and true, but i cant be fucked putting on the chisel
drills are better because they look better, case closed
you don't even need to click twice. Just right clicking the vanity slot will swap it with the accessory.
Maybe it'd work out better if they could still use some mining speed buffs but not all, or if they had a lower increase from those buffs.
You dont even need to click twice. Put the chisel and mining helmet and some other stuff in your second loadout and hit F2
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ok but drill cool
2 clicks? you only need one!
Drills better
To be fair I do like drills as to me they feel satisfying to me though I'm aware pickaxes are better but to Me I just like drills since I like the sound the make the design for them and how fast then mine stuff as well along with them being different from pickaxes since with pickaxes well you have them since day one of your journey while drills exist once you enter hardmode
You forgot the Plenty Satisfied buff from medium food which increase mining speed by 10% while being piss easy to have permanently on.
2:46 idk if they changed it between then and now or what, but you can just right click the accessory in the vanity slot to switch the two
so it's now HALF the gruelling process to switch to your chisel
I play with no sound
I play for fun when it comes to building and bosses, but when it comes to MINING, no. I wanna be as efficient as possible.
That’s so true when ever I see someone use a drill I panic